Solutions Architect, Strategic Retail - Central

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Field Engineering - FE Direct Enterprise

Solutions Architect for Databricks in the retail sector, focusing on pre-sales and driving adoption of ML & AI within large enterprise accounts. The role involves developing technical strategies, building customer champions, and acting as a trusted advisor for data analytics architecture and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and implement account technical strategies in partnership with Account Executive(s) in your designated strategic account(s), aligned to account growth goals.
  2. Build technical champions in within the account(s) to influence key technical decisions shaping the industry
  3. You will influence stakeholders at all levels through complex engagements with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications, ensuring they are excited by the Databricks vision and solution strategy.
  4. Be a 'champion’ for both customers and colleagues, operating as an expert solution architect and trusted advisor for significant data analytics architecture, design, and adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
  5. Contribute to Databricks' technical community engagement by developing customer-facing collateral and leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.

Skills

Required

  • customer facing technical experience
  • pre-sales capacity
  • big data
  • data science
  • data engineering
  • data-warehousing
  • cloud technologies
  • data-driven business transformation
  • AI-first mindset
  • Builder mindset
  • design and implementation experience in big data technologies
  • public cloud platform(s)
  • Python
  • Java
  • Scala
  • Spark

Nice to have

  • Databricks Certification

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record of helping large enterprises become more data-driven
  • must understand the relevance and application of ML & AI
  • 8+ years of customer facing technical experience working in very large (> $3M-5M++ ARR) customers, preferably in pre-sales capacity
  • Deep Technical expertise in key areas such as big data, data science, data engineering, data-warehousing, and cloud technologies
  • An ability in data-driven business transformation and driving change with data, through AI-first and Builder mindset approach
  • 3+ years of experience with design and implementation experience in big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP or full lifecycle data science solutions
  • Hands-on expertise with complex proofs-of-concept and public cloud platform(s)
  • Experience in a core programming language (i.e., Python, Java, Scala) and willingness to learn Spark

Other signals

  • ML & AI adoption
  • data-driven transformation
  • technical strategy for accounts
  • value selling